On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:17:58 +0000 Robin H. Johnson wrote:

>Over the years, the base-system package herd has grown in size. Today
>it comprises 320 packages, of which 61 of those have more than one
>maintainer. The packages with more than one maintainer I'm only
>concerned about if the other maintainer is also very busy or not
>available.
>
>Some of these packages are very niche, and while they continue to work,
>they could use a bit more attention than they get presently (you might
>only hear about them when they break and never when they work). 
>
>They are generally NOT broken and in need of tree-cleaning, but are
>just lacking forward momentum (not a few bugs are reasonable upstream
>bugs or feature improvements). Many were once shiny and had lots of
>people that cared, but that dwindled as they become mundane and just
>expected to work.
>
>General increase in the number of developers in base-system would not
>be a bad outcome from this email either ;-).
>
>Some of this is from stuff I know needs eyeballs, and others are where
>the package seems to have more than a few old bugs open.
>
>Packages in need of review & tweaks or just more eyeballs
>----------------------------------------------------------
>app-admin/sudo (upstream?)
>app-admin/sysklogd- (upstream?)
>app-shells/bash (upstream?)
>dev-util/strace (upstream?)
>net-dialup/ppp
>net-firewall/iptables
>net-fs/nfs-utils (upstream?)
>net-misc/dhcpcd (upstream?)
>net-misc/dhcp (upstream?)
>net-misc/ntp (upstream?)
>net-misc/openssh 
>net-nds/rpcbind
>sys-apps/baselayout
>sys-apps/coreutils (upstream?)
>sys-apps/kbd (upstream?)
>sys-block/aoetools
>sys-block/iscsitarget
>sys-block/open-iscsi
>sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools
>sys-block/vblade
>sys-fs/lvm2 (mostly in regards to genkernel interaction)
>sys-fs/multipath-tools
>sys-fs/quota
>

I have some kind of interest for these packages:

app-admin/sudo
app-admin/sysklogd
app-shells/bash
net-dialup/ppp
net-firewall/iptables
net-misc/dhcpcd
net-misc/dhcp
net-misc/ntp
net-misc/openssh 
sys-apps/coreutils
sys-apps/kbd

But I think I cannot maintain all of them alone. So yeah, fresh
(active!) blood in base-system would be nice.

Kind regards
Lars

-- 
Lars Wendler
Gentoo package maintainer
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